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Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Fred Allen

Fred Allen

Teaching Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Research Interests

Tissue Engineering, Cell Engineering, Orthopedics, Bone Remodeling, Wound Healing, Mechanotransduction, Signal Transduction, Adhesion, Migration

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Lin Han

Lin Han

Professor

Research Interests

Nanoscale structure-property relationships of biological materials, genetic and molecular origins of soft joint tissue diseases, biomaterials under extreme conditions, coupling between stimulus-responsiveness and geometry

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XiaoHuang

Xiao Huang

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Develop innovative engineering platforms and analytical methods to advance understanding and control of immunotherapies.

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Dov Jaron

Dov Jaron

Professor Emeritus, Calhoun Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Medicine

Research Interests

Engineering development and optimization of cardiac assist devices, cardiovascular dynamics, cardiovascular function under stress, modeling of biological systems, mechanisms of gas transport in the mivtocirculation, biomedical instrumentation biomatrices, cell-biomaterials interactions, artificial internal organs, endothelial cell biology, hemodynamic forces, atherosclerosis, genomics, signal transduction

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Steven M. Kurtz

Steven Kurtz

Part-time Research Professor

Research Interests

Computational biomechanics of bone-implant systems and impact-related injuries, orthopaedic biomechanics, contact mechanics, orthopaedic biomaterials, large-deformation mechanical behavior and wear of polymers, and degradation and crosslinking of polyolefins in implant applications.

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Peter A. Lewin

Peter Lewin

Richard B. Beard Distinguished University Professor

Research Interests

Ultrasonic characterization of materials, propagation of ultrasonic waves in inhomogeneous media, electro-acoustic transducers, biological effects of ultrasound, physical acoustics, and underwater acoustics

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Michael Neidrauer

Michael Neidrauer

Part-time Research Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Biomedical optics, biomedical ultrasonics, biomedical instrumentation, diffuse near infrared spectroscopy (DNIRS), diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS), low frequency low intensity therapeutic ultrasound, wound healing, chronic wounds, deep tissue pressure injuries, diabetic ulcers, venous ulcers, microcirculatory blood flow, tissue oxygenation.

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John M. Reid

John Reid

Professor Emeritus,
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

Research Interests

Diagnostic ultrasound, wave propagation and scattering in inhomogeneous media, imaging, instrumentation.

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Christopher B. Rodell, PhD

Christopher Rodell

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Biomaterials, supramolecular chemistry, and drug delivery. Therapeutic applications including the etiology of disease, organ injury, cardiovascular engineering, immune engineering, and biomedical imaging.

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Adrian Shieh

Adrian Shieh

Teaching Professor

Research Interests

3-D cell culture, cancer, cell and tissue engineering, extracellular matrix, fibroblasts, interstitial flow, mechanobiology, mechanotransduction, tumor invasion and metastasis, tumor microenvironment

Teaching Interests

Active learning, biomechanics, cell and molecular biology, cell and tissue engineering, problem-based learning, STEM education

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Wan Shih

Wan Shih

Professor

Research Interests

Piezoelectric microcantilever biosensors development, piezoelectric finger development, quantum dots development, tissue elasticity imaging, and piezoelectric microcantilever force probes.

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Kara Spiller

Kara Spiller

URBN Professor of Biomedical Innovation

Research Interests

Macrophage-biomaterial interactions, drug delivery systems, and chronic wound healing.

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Margaret Wheatley

Margaret Wheatley

John M. Reid Professor

Research Interests

Ultrasound contrast agent development (imaging, tumor targeting and triggered drug and oxygen delivery), controlled release technology (bioactive compounds), ex vivo gene therapy for spinal cord repair.



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Yinghui Zhong

Yinghui Zhong

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Neural tissue engineering, spinal cord repair, cardiovascular diseases, drug delivery, biomaterial scaffolds, stem cells, neural electrode/tissue interface, and surface modification.

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Leonid Zubkov

Leonid Zubkov

Research Professor

Research Interests

Physiology, wound healing, physiologic neovascularization, near-infrared spectroscopy, optical tomography, histological techniques, computer-assisted diagnosis, infrared spectrophotometry, physiologic monitoring, experimental diabetes mellitus, penetrating wounds, diabetes complications, skin, animal models, radiation scattering, failure analysis

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